Carrier Must Draw On Its Image
To Retain Investors, Passengers

A WSJ.com News Roundup

Updated Nov. 6, 2000 4:05 p.m. ET

S ingapore Airlines Flight SQ006 lasted less than thirty seconds. But when the Boeing jumbo jet crashed into a runway at the Taipei airport this week, killing 81 people, an additional casualty might have been the carrier's sterling reputation.

Though it was the first major accident in the Singapore carrier's 28-year history, the tragedy raises big questions about the airline's reputation as a world-class model of safety.